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>> 04 September 2011

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This is a quick report about the Festival of Cergy's associations, in Cergy, France.
I am really tired after this event, but wanted to deliver some hot news.

Every year there are a lot of organizations that participate in this event, about 300. All sort of organizations (non-profit), education, sport, universities, associations for young people, retired, or for children. All booths are in a big parc, each in a separate tent.This Saturday the sun was shinning and it was a little bit hot, an ideal situation to have the maximum of visitors. I have announced my association's booth, Fedora User Group Cergy, and Fedora 15 DVS, in many local medias, some weeks ago.

I arrived there at about 9.30 am, we were two persons. A big surprise were there, there were 3 visitors waiting near the booth for their Fedora Live DVD.

We began at once to prepare the booth for the event. We had a Fedora poster, some banners, Fedora's live DVDs, some decorations and gift (T-Shirts, Caps, mugs, stylos, goodies, ...).

There were a lot of people interested by Fedora. Many of them had read about Fedora 15, and wanted to test it. Most of them are students, some discovered Fedora for the first time. Some Linux users were there just to have a little talk, about Fedora and Linux

There were a lot of Windows users, they think that Linux installation is difficult for them. After a little discussion about how easy is to install Fedora, and the possibility to discover Fedora without any prior installation using the live DVD, these people were interested in trying Fedora.

There were also some of other Linux distributions users, they read about Fedora 15 on the Web, or in magazines, and are also very interested in trying Fedora 15.

I also visited some other booths to promote Fedora

I think that globally this event was really positive, with many interesting contacts. I distributed about 100 Fedora's DVD. A local radio will invite me to talk about Fedora and Fedora User Group of Cergy. I met at least 150 persons, most of the time in groups, in other booths. I have contact with two universities, here in Cergy for an install party, next year.

The Mayor of Cergy (60.000 habitation) visited the booth and was happy to have a Linux User Group in his town.

At last, but not the least, i have now 10 users for Fedora User Group of Cergy.

One last note, there were a question like "why do you promote Fedora? Do work for Red Hat?". The answer off course was that I'm a Fedora Ambassador, and that i'm proud to promote it :)